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has recently been incorporated under the title of the " Trustees of the 

 Peabody Academy of Science." He was also one of the original trus- 

 tees of the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology, founded by the same 

 munificent hand, and was a member of several other scientific institu- 

 tions. 



Mr. Peabody was a man of active and vigorous mind, reaching out 

 for knowledge on every side. With a genius for scientific experi- 

 ments and for mechanical invention he combined a disposition, as well 

 as ample means, to befriend the labors of others in these directions. 

 While distinguished for the variety of his knowledge, he was indefati- 

 gable in reducing it to practical use, and was ever ready to apply his 

 liberal means to advance the welfare of his neighbors by the encour- 

 agement of industry and the discovery of new sources of profit. 



As his life was characterized by devotion to the studies and pursuits 

 which lead to the enduring prosperity of a country, so his memory will 

 long be cherished for his engaging virtues as well as for his active zeal 

 in all worthy undertakings. 



Professor Chester Dewey, D. D., LL. D., who was elected into 

 this society fifty years ago, died at Rochester, New York, on the 15th 

 of December last. He was born at Sheffield, Massachusetts, on the 

 25th of October, 1784, and had therefore entered upon the eighty- 

 fourth year of his age. He was .graduated at Williams College in 

 1806, was licensed to preach in 1808, but was that same year recalled 

 to his Alma Mater as tut^r, and in 1810 was appointed Professor of 

 Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (including Chemistry), which 

 chair he occupied for seventeen years, to the great advantage of the 

 College. Here, and afterwards as Preceptor of the Gymnasium, a 

 high school for boys which he established at Pittsfield, and carried on 

 for ten years, he did excellent service and acquired abiding fame as an 

 educator. In 1836 he was called to the charge of a similar, but larger, 

 establishment at Rochester, New York, which he conducted with great 

 success until the year 1850, when he became Professor of Chemistry 

 and Natural Philosophy in the newly founded University in that city. 

 He actively performed the duties of this chair for ten years or more, 

 when his age gave a just claim for retirement, although his powers 

 were little impaired, and he gave occasional lectures or other services 

 until he had reached the age of fourscore. His scientific contributions, 

 which began in the first volume of Silliman's Journal in 1818, were 

 continued down to within a year of his death, extending therefore 



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